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KANSAS COMMENT. FOR COMMERCIAL CLUB. Citizens of Winfield at a meeting appointed a committee to organize a commercial club. POSTMASTER AT FLORENCE. James S. Alexander has been appointed to succeed C. D. Battey as postmaster at Florence. ORIENT IN WICHITA FEB. 5.-That is the date on which Orient trains will enter Wichita. If fair weather prevails the officials feel no doubt but that the trains will be running on that date. 3DIED WHILE DRUNK.-John Spehrl was found dead in the road near his place about four miles northwest of Wamego. It is supposed that he fell out of his wagon while drunk. He was about 30 years old, single and lived alone. KILLED 4-YEAR-OLD ORPHAN.-Albert Jordon, a wealthy farmer of Smith county, and his wife, are in jail charged with murder. Some time ago they took Harry Kaipers, a four-year-old orphan of Atchison, to raise. The coroner's jury found that the boy had come to his death at the hands of the Jordons and held the couple for murder. AN AGED PIONEER.-Captain Eli Snyder died on his 88th birthday at the family home in Osawatomie. Captain Snyder was one of the pioneers of Kansas. He came to Linn county in 1857 and settled near what was then known as Trading Post. It was on his farm that a band of border ruffians committed the murders which have passed into history as the Marais des Cygnes massacre. CORN PRODUCTS. Work is in progress on a corn mill at Atchison which will turn out fifteen different varieties of corn products. Kansas raises the corn, sells it at from 20 to 50 cents a bushel, it is hauled away to other states, worked up into food stuffs, shipped back to Kansas and sold to the same people who raised it at a large profit which might be retained in the state. BRICK AND POULTRY.-Contracts have been closed at La Harpe for a new brick plant and a poultry plant. The first is to have a capacity of not less than 30,000 brick per day. The poultry plant is planned upon an immense scale and will be the largest in the United States. From $10,000 to $15,000 will be invested in building and equipment. The two enterprises will add 50 families to La Harpe. EXTRA FREIGHT TRAIN.-Rock Island officials have announced that an extra freight would be put on the schedule to carry grain and livestock and would run between Herington and Caldwell. It will gather up grain and live stock at all points between Herington and Caldwell and will make delivery at or before noon in Wichita doing away with a part of the late delivery at the stock yards. A TRUE MAN WENT WRONG. After having been freed by a technicality in the law from trial on the charge of the murder of 18-year-old Arthur Smith, W. I. Coombs has annouced his intention of going into court and asking sentence for his crime. To the widowed mother of the boy he shot last June he has made over his house and lot in town and has promised her that if he is not made to pay the penalty of his crime he will turn over $20 of his monthly earnings to her for her support. Coombs is a section foreman on the Roek Island at Goodland. EX-CHANCELLOR OF K. U. Dr. Canfield, who for many years was well known to Kansas people as chancellor of the State University at Lawrence, is now librarian at the Columbian university of New York, where he receives a salary of $6,000 a year, with the condition that at the end of twelve years he will be retired on an annual salary of $2,500. MORE HOUSES WANTED. During the past two years 160 houses have been built at Herington and 50 more could be speedily rented. FOR OIL AT DEXTER.-Work has commenced of boring for oil near Dexter, Cowley county. The drilling will be done by William Geiser, of Peru, who has a three-eighths interest in the company. The rest of the stock is mostly held by business men of Winfield. FOR SALINA. A representative of Pennsylvania capitalists has been before the salina council in regard to securing a franchise for an electric light plant and an electric street railway system. GET 63½ PER CENT. Receiver P. H. Halleck, of the Thomas Kirby bank at Abilene, closed three years ago, has